ufo_data/bin/rr0/tran1977.md



-   **March 7th, 8:34 PM:** In the Chaumont region, during a night navigation and bombing exercise mission, encounter of Colonel [René Giraud](pilotes.html#GiraudRene) and his navigator.


    
-   **May 9th:** Photo taken in New Mexico. See images/1977-05.jpg.


-   **April 5:** Recovery of 11 bodies following a crash in the southwest of Ohio.


-   **April 25th, 4am:** At Pampa Lluscuma (Peru-Chile border), 5 km
    from Putre inside Arica, a military patrol of 8 soldiers observe a
    strange light. Corporal Armando Valdes Garrido states: The light
    stayed there all night. Nobody knew what it was. Until it started
    to descend\... But finally, when it descended from the mountain,
    slowly, it appeared to us as 2 lights. One after the other. Very
    close\... The corporal approaches the light asking it to identify
    itself. He advances and gradually disappears entering a kind of
    mist. 15 minutes later he reappears asking for help. When he is
    found, his beard has grown several mm and his watch shows the date
    of April 30th [\[VSD 2007 H, Interview of the corporal on
    television\]]{.source}.


-   **Spring:** Numerous UFO sightings around USAF bases in the northern United States.


-   **June 16:** Death of [Werhner von Braun](VonBraunWernher.html).

-   **June 21:** Near Centeno (Argentina), an object was photographed (see below) by an anonymous source. A similar object was observed 2 years earlier in Ontario (Canada). See images/1977-06-21_1.gif, images/1977-06-21_2.gif, images/1977-06-21_3.gif, images/1977-06-21_3.gif.


-   **June 22:** Recovery of 5 bodies following a crash in the Northwest of Arizona.

- **July**


-   **20 h** : In Gonesse (Val d'Oise), observation of an upside-down saucer for 20 minutes. [\[*Gazette du Val d'Oise,* 16 July 1997\]]{.source}

-   **July 7th, 8:30 PM:** In Zhang Po (Fujian, China), 3000 people are gathered to attend an outdoor screening of the Romanian film, *Alert on the Danube Delta*. 2 immense orange UFOs suddenly descend from the sky and hover above the heads of the spectators, buzzing and so close that they can feel the heat. A few seconds later, they rise and disappear into the night.


- Beginning of a wave of attacks around the village of Corales (50 km north of Belem) which will end in November 1978. Bob Pratt will be able to collect, in July 1993, the testimony of Doctor [Wellaide Cecim](CarvalhoWellaideCecim.html) Carvalho who witnessed the injuries inflicted by mysterious UFO attacks.

- **11 July:** In Floradad (Uruguay), a reporter on assignment from one of the largest Uruguayan cities photographs (see below) a strange object as it circles around him multiple times. See images/1977-07-11_Floradad_Uruguay.jpg.

- **July 21**: Frank Press, scientific advisor to President [Carter](CarterJamesEarl.html), sends a letter to Robert Frosch, administrator of [NASA](NASA.html), recommending that a small investigative committee (...) be set up to see if any new significant evidence has been found since the [Condon](CondonEdwardUlher.html) report [\[Sturrock 2001\]]{.source}.

-   **July 26:** Photo taken in Maldonada (Uruguay). See images/1977-07-26.gif.

-   **August 12:** First atmospheric flight of the American shuttle *Enterprise* from a Boeing 747.


- Recording the "WOW" signal. See images/WOW_450.jpg.


-   **August 20:** Launch of the American probe *Voyager 2*, heading to the 4 giant planets.


-   **September 5:** Launch of *Voyager 1.* It will fly over [Jupiter](Jupiter.html) and Saturn then plunge into interplanetary space.


-   **September 10:** In Colusa (California), [Bill Pecha](temoins.html#PechaWilliam) observes discs at a short distance from his home.


-   **September 11:** In Maine (United States), [Herbert Hopkins](temoins.html#HopkinsHerbert) receives a visit from a [MIB](MIB.html) while investigating a UFO sighting in Maine. His daughter-in-law and son will also receive a visit.


-   **September 18/19:** In Tehran (Iran), alerted by several calls from civilians reporting a large, very bright star, and two airport controllers detecting an unidentified object, the US army dispatched an [F-4](appareils.html#F4) Phantom to meet it. The pilot confirmed the existence of the UFO, round in shape. When he approached, it accelerated several times the speed of sound, then, making a sudden turn, it began to pursue his fighter for a few minutes. When the pilot wanted to fire, the controls did not respond: all instruments, including the radio, refused to work within a radius of 5 km around the object. He had to return to base. A second F-4 was sent on reconnaissance. Upon arriving in view of the target, an object resembling a missile dived on the plane. The pilot had to dive to escape the fire. The object stopped abruptly and immediately returned to "merge" into the UFO.


- Photography of the Petrozavodsk observation on September 20. See images/1977-09-20_250.jpg.


- **September 30**

-   **9 PM:** In the Yonne, gendarmes observe the ballet of several
    luminous devices. Their report describes: We observe from our
    observation point that luminous sets are evolving in the terrestrial
    atmosphere at vertiginous speeds... The investigators count 7 of
    them. These unidentified flying objects (UFOs) are, for some, in
    the shape of diamonds whose angles are lit by several lights
    emitting a whitish incandescent light. Some of them have a strong
    orange-red light in the middle, clearly visible, sending out
    flashes. Others, circular, give the impression of being adorned on
    their periphery with a concentric ramp with a good number of
    lights: these are white or yellowish. They get lost in the
    infinite. None of them change shape or color. These UFOs move
    making very disordered movements, ascending or descending,
    rotary or spiroid, at lightning speeds. They stabilize, restart
    abruptly... They disappear or reappear suddenly during their
    evolutions. During the entire observation made by the military of
    the [gendarmerie](Gendarmerie.html), no sound of engine or
    reactor is heard from these UFOs and we do not notice any trace of
    their passage. These UFOs do not come from any particular
    direction, in the same way that they disappear towards any point.


- **9:30 PM:** A UFO approaches the observers: A large glowing reddish ball appears. It stops, then moves again at a reduced speed and horizontally over a distance of about 600 m. At this moment, its altitude is estimated at 60 m. A witness observes it with binoculars. He only notices an orange-red sphere, surrounded by a bright and narrow halo, without noticing any activity on or around it. The mysterious craft stops at the horn of a poplar grove and fades into the darkness... Its slow maneuver lasted a few minutes.


-   **21 h 45 :** UFO activity gradually subsides and the last one is seen at 21 h 45, after which the sky regained its tranquility.


- During his campaign for the presidential elections, [Jimmy Carter](dirigeants.html#CarterJamesEarl) promised to make public all documents concerning UFOs held by the American administration.


- Under hypnosis, [Betty Andreasson](temoins.html#AndreassonBetty) remembers the event she experienced on January 25th [1967](1967.html).


- Viking Probe on [Mars](Mars.html).


-   [Bruce Maccabee](MaccabeeBruceSargent.html) obtains a copy of the FBI's [memo](FBI.html) from March 22nd [1950](1950.html) under the [FOIA](glossair.html#FOIA).


-   **October 20:** Spanish researcher Juan José Benitez receives from
    his government a 78-page dossier concerning the 12 best
    authenticated UFO cases. This documentation contains photos and a
    film taken by a military pilot.


-   **November 5:** In Rives (Isère), a physicist observed a white luminous disc surrounded by a greenish halo, silent, moving in the sky, then stopping and moving away at high speed in another direction. 2 other people have seen the UFO independently.


-   **November 16:** Have Blue (#1001), the prototype of the stealth fighter [F-117A](F117.html), arrives at [Groom Lake](Area51.html) for test flights [\[Peebles 1995\]]{.source}.


-   **December 1st:** First flight of the [F-117A](F117.html) Have Blue prototype at [Groom Lake](Area51.html) [\[Peter Merlin, *Dreamland - the Air Force's Remote Test Site*, article for *Aerotech News and Review* April 1st, 1994\]]{.source}.


-   **December 21**: In his response to Frank Press's letter of July 21, Robert Frosch, administrator of [NASA](NASA.html), refuses to mount a research effort or convene a symposium, considering the absence of physical evidence that can be analyzed in the laboratory. However, he adds, if, in the future, some material evidence is brought to our attention, it would be fully justified for the [NASA](NASA.html) laboratory to study any unexplained organic or inorganic sample and publish the results; we are ready to bona fide examine physical evidence from credible sources. We leave the door wide open to such a possibility [\[Sturrock 2001\]]{.source}.


- In *The High Frontier*, American physicist Gerard O'Neill explores the concept of orbital cities.


- Release of the movie *Close Encounters of the Third Kind* by [Steven Spielberg](SpielbergSteven.html).