ufo_data/bin/rr0/tran1962.md


-   **Beginning of the Year:** The fuel tank of [Groom Lake](Area51.html) is completed, with a capacity of 1320000 gallons [\[McIninch\]]{.source}.

-   **January 15:** The restricted airspace just above [Groom Lake](Area51.html) (R-4808) is extended to 22 [nautical miles](unites.html#NM) by 20. The basis of this extension is a request from the Air Force Department citing an immediate and urgent need for a secret project. This creates the "Groom Box" as it exists today [\[Federal Register\]]{.source} (27 FR 205).


-   **February 7:** Statement from the [ATIC](ATIC.html): Nothing has been able to prove that any of the 7369 unidentified objects reported since 1947 is an extraterrestrial vehicle.

-   **February 20:** Glenn's flight aboard a *[Mercury](Mercury.html)* capsule.

-   **February 25:** Sighting in Kotzebue (Alaska) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #7818 unsolved]]{.source}.


-   **February 26:** The first A-12 *Blackbird* (#121) is trucked to Groom for testing [\[McIninch\]]{.source} [\[Rich 1994 mentions January\]]{.source}.


- **March 1st**


- Observation in Salem (New York) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #7823 unsolved]]{.source}.

- Creation of the [CNES](CNES.html).

-   **March 7:** OSO, 1st satellite dedicated to the Sun.

- **March 26**


- Observation at the Ramstein Air Base (Germany) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #7840 unsolved]]{.source}.

- Observation in Naperville (Illinois) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #7841 unsolved]{.source}.

-   **May 15:** Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](CooperLeroyGordon.html) is followed by a UFO above Hawaii.

-   **April 4:** Sighting in Wurtland (Kentucky) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #7851 unsolved]]{.source}.

- **April 26**


-   A [Groom Lake](Area51.html), first test flight of the A-12 *Blackbird* (#121) [\[McIninch\]]{.source}.

-   *Ariel 1*, British scientific satellite.


-   **April 30:** Test pilot [Joseph Walker](WalkerJosephA.html) encounters two unidentified disk-shaped objects during a test flight, and films them.

- **May**

- Enlargement of the UFO photographed in April-May. See images/1962-05_2.jpg.


-   [Joseph Walker](WalkerJosephA.html) publicly recounted his encounter of April 30th at a conference.


-   **May 21:** Over England, an international Irish flight flying at an altitude of 17000 feet when it encountered a round metal object [\[Keyhoe 1967\]]{.source}.


-   **May 24:** Carpenter's orbital flight.


-   **May 26:** Sighting in Westfield (Massachusetts) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #7930 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **May 27:** Observation at Palmer (Alaska) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #7931 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **May 25:** In Argentina, a UFO photo taken by a journalist from *Nueva Provincia* is confirmed by the Cordoba Observatory. Other observations will take place until August.

- **June**


-   **June 12:** Recovery of 2 bodies following a crash at [Holloman](HollomanAFB.html) base (New Mexico).


- In Verona (Italy), following a UFO sighting, a woman is awoken by an intense cold sensation and sees a bald being near the house. She calls other witnesses and all of them see the apparition shrink and disappear on the spot like a television image when the device is turned off.


-   **June 21:** Sighting in Indianapolis (Indiana) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #7957 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **June 30-July 1:** Observation in Richmond (Virginia)
    [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #7968 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **July 10:** Telstar, 1st telecommunications satellite.

-   **July 17:** Test pilot [Robert White](WhiteRobertMichael.html) claims to have found himself in a formation of UFOs at 96 km altitude.

-   **July 19:** Sighting in Metuchen (New Jersey) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8020 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **July 30:** Observation at Ocean Springs (Mississippi) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8034 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **Sunday, August 5th, 0:00:** Marilyn Monroe commits suicide by overdose of barbiturates.

-   **August 17**: At Duas Pontes (Brazil, Rivalino da Silva, a diamond prospector, told his associates he had seen two strange dwarves digging a hole near his house. They ran away when he approached them, and a moment later an object shaped like a hat, with a red glow, took off from behind the bushes. Theft of 17 chickens, 6 pigs and 2 cows by the crew of a presumed extraterrestrial vehicle [[[Vallée](ValleeJacques.html) 1969]]{.source}.


- **August 19**


- Observation in Bermuda [\[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8064 unsolved\]]{.source}.


-   Raimundo, the son of Rivalino da Silva, is awoken by footsteps and sees a strange shadow in the room. It is small and of non-human shape. Voices are heard, saying: This one looks like Rivalino and afterwards that they were going to kill him. The family stays alert all night.


- Raimundo da Silva testified to the police that, while he was working in a field, he saw two stationary spherical objects 2 meters above the ground, a few meters from the house. One was black with a protrusion resembling an antenna and a small rudder; the other was black and white. Both emitted a humming sound and a flashing light through an opening. The boy's father warned him to stay away as Rivalino advanced towards the objects, praying. As he was only 2 meters away, the two spheres merged into one, raising dust from the ground and spreading a yellow mist that enveloped the man. The boy ran after his father, noting that the cloud had a pungent smell. As it dissolved, everything had disappeared. The police investigation, led by Lieutenant Lisboa, revealed no clues. Many people in the area were terrified.

-   **August 22:** Attempted assassination of De Gaulle in Petit-Clamart.

-   **August 24, 7am:** In an isolated farm in Duas Pantas (Brazil), a 9 year old child exits his house and discovers two balls with a diameter of 40 cm on the ground, facing the door he just crossed. He immediately calls his father who also sees the balls and approaches them closely. At that moment, a violent whirlwind of air is triggered and raises a cloud of dust. The child can no longer distinguish his father in this turmoil, then the whirlwind calms down while rising. His father has disappeared forever. The investigators are unable to find his trace and this event intrigues the authorities so much that the child is immediately put under psychiatric observation: they want to know the reasons why he invented this story.

- The satellite *Transit 4-B* stopped transmitting for 6 months, then started up again on its own.

-   **August 27:** Launch of *Mariner* 2 to [Venus](Venus.html).
In its No. 1, the Soviet magazine *Simena* publishes an article where one can read, among other things, that the skull of a man 40,000 years old was discovered in Broken Hill (now Kabwe) at a little more than 50 km from Lusaka, the capital of the current Zambia. Strangely, this skull would be pierced with a neat hole, without radial cracks, which would suggest the impact of a bullet. The same type of impact appears on a prehistoric bison skull dating from around 8000 to 10000 BC, which this time is preserved by the Paleontology Museum of Moscow. This fossil would have been found west of the Lena, a river that crosses the Autonomous Republic of Yakutia, famous for the countless mammoth tusks found buried in its frozen soil most of the year. You can see a photograph of this skull in Erich von Däniken's *Gods from Outer Space*. The latter, as well as Soviet scientists such as K. Flerov, claim that this hole is indeed from that time because its edges have been re-calcified, proof that the animal would have survived its injury. As the photograph is taken from far enough away to encompass the entire bison skull, it is impossible to detect this re-calcification. But one can indeed see a neat round hole at the forehead level."

- Launch of the project [RedLight](Redlight.html).

-   **September 21:** Observation at WSW of Biloxi (Mississippi) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8133 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **September 29:** Launch of the Canadian satellite *Alouette*.

-   **October 14-November 22:** Cuban Missile Crisis.

-   **October 23:** UFO Case Duck Hunter in Farmington (Utah) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8182 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **November 8th and 12th:** Dialogues between cosmonaut Belokonev and
    Earth are intercepted: Attention, attention. Don't push the tests
    too far, it could be dangerous\... I took the shots\... What a
    wonder! (\...) Everything is black, very black. Yes, small
    particles, tiny, 2 or 3 mm. Has Belokonev entered a dense particle
    field that would encumber the planet's suburbs? He must try to
    take samples as he complains that the commands are not working. I
    succeeded. I took one. It's strange, weird, it has no weight\...
    But the drama is approaching. The batteries are damaged. The
    instruments don't work anymore. Oxygen! I beg you, comrades\...
    What, I can't do anything?! Curse! I can't succeed\... It's
    impossible. I can't, I tell you! Understand me, understand me\...
    Atrocious, terrible loneliness!

-   **November 17:** Sighting in Tampa (Florida) [[case [Blue Book](BlueBook.html) #8215 unsolved]]{.source}.

-   **December 22:** At the Ezezia International Airport, near Buenos Aires, a curious round machine appears shortly before sunrise at the end of runway 1-0-2-8, blocking the landing of a Panagra DC-8 jet. After a while it flies away at high speed out of sight [\[Keyhoe 1967\]]{.source}.

- The geodetic satellite *Anna*, nicknamed "FireFly" ("Firefly" because it sparkles in the night) suddenly stops working and resists all attempts to restart it. She will make headlines again 7 months later, resuming her work as if nothing had happened in the meantime.


-   Release of the book "Les extraterrestres" by Pascal Thomas (pseudonym of composer Paul Misraki) which marks the beginning of the use of the term extraterrestrial to detach from fantastical stories evoking Martians or Venusians.